{"id":81,"date":"2011-02-25T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/02\/25\/exceptional-storyboarding-tutorial-by-louie-del-carmen-and-incremental-save-script-for-photoshop-and-bridge-workflow\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T18:48:24","slug":"exceptional-storyboarding-tutorial-by-louie-del-carmen-and-incremental-save-script-for-photoshop-and-bridge-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/02\/25\/exceptional-storyboarding-tutorial-by-louie-del-carmen-and-incremental-save-script-for-photoshop-and-bridge-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Exceptional Storyboarding Tutorial by Louie del Carmen (and ‘Incremental Save’ Script for Photoshop and Bridge Workflow)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(previz from Louie del Carmen’s tutorial)<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

Digital artists are generous: community forums for sharing tips in our evolving medium have become small industries. Whether for Flash, Photoshop, or Maya — or whatever the next program will be — all of us are ultimately self-taught; each of us has our own techniques and workflows — those who share, nurture our community and profit from feedback in turn.<\/p>\n

Story Artists are generous but with such a complex workflow it can be difficult to ask the right questions.\u00a0Boards included in “Art of” books accompanying the release of films often only highlight polished “Hallmark” shots; novice storyboards are notoriously overwrought. (For an informative discussion on production vs polished boards watch this video<\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Louie del Carmen’s comprehensive storyboarding tutorial<\/a> changes the discussion. From script to sequence\u00a0viewers are lead through production quality boarding\u00a0in a straightforward, accessible manner. If you have been scouring the internet for tips this tutorial is a treasure.<\/p>\n

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Louie’s tutorial will pay for itself within minutes if you are not yet using Adobe Bridge. $25 is a gift…wish more Story Artists were as generous as:\u00a0http:\/\/www.cgmwonline.com\/Louie-Del-Carmen.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here’s a Photoshop script which works well with a Bridge workflow. The cool thing is it makes accidentally over-writing sequential files difficult: as you continue working from a single authoring file activating this script saves filenames in increments of 10. (At the very least it will speed up your workflow by eliminating the need to hand edit filenames.)<\/p>\n

Paste the code below into a new file in ExtendScript Toolkit<\/span> (part of Photoshop\u2019s installation found here: Applications\/Utilities\/Adobe Utilities\/ExtendScript Toolkit CS4 or \/Applications\/Utilities\/Adobe Utilities-CS5\/ExtendScript Toolkit CS5), save it as a jsx-file into Photoshop\u2019s Presets\/Scripts-folder.<\/p>\n

After restarting Photoshop the Script should be available under File > Scripts and can be assigned a Keyboard Shortcut, recorded into an Action, used in a Configurator-Panel, or started from the ExtendScript Toolkit itself.<\/p>\n

Default installations of Photoshop leave the Keyboard Shortcut ctrl+command+shit+S unassigned. By assigning this or another shortcut key you can then map a button on your Cintique to activate the script.<\/p>\n

\/\/ saves psd copies in rising four digit numbers appended to the authoring file’s name;<\/span>
#target photoshop<\/span>
if (app.documents.length > 0) {<\/span>
\/\/ get properties;<\/span>
var thedoc = app.activeDocument;<\/span>
var docName = thedoc.name;<\/span>
var basename = docName.match(\/(.*)\\.[^\\.]+$\/)[1];<\/span>
var docPath = thedoc.path;<\/span>
\/\/ psd options;<\/span>
psdOpts = new PhotoshopSaveOptions();<\/span>
psdOpts.embedColorProfile = true;<\/span>
psdOpts.alphaChannels = false;<\/span>
\/\/ change this to true if you want all the layers in the copy;<\/span>
psdOpts.layers = true; \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
psdOpts.spotColors = true;<\/span>
\/\/ get neighboring \u00a0psdf iles;<\/span>
var theFiles = retrievePSDFiles (Folder (docPath));<\/span>
\/\/ collect numbers;<\/span>
var theNumbers = new Array;<\/span>
for (var m = 0; m < theFiles.length; m++) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 if (theFiles[m].name.match(basename+”_”+”[0-9]{1,4}”+”.psd”)) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0var thisNumber = Number(theFiles[m].name.slice(0, theFiles[m].name.length – 4).match(\/\\d{1,4}$\/));<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0theNumbers.push(thisNumber);<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0}<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 };<\/span>
\/\/ get largest number;<\/span>
if (theNumbers.length > 0) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 var number = Number(theLargestNumber(theNumbers));<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 var theNumber = bufferNumberWithZeros(number + 10, 4)<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 }<\/span>
else {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 var theNumber = “0010”<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 };<\/span>
\/\/ save copy;<\/span>
thedoc.saveAs((new File(docPath+’\/’+basename+”_”+theNumber+”.psd”)),psdOpts,true);<\/span>
};<\/span>
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/span>
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/span>
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/span>
\/\/\/\/\/\/ buffer number with zeros \/\/\/\/\/\/<\/span>
function bufferNumberWithZeros (number, places) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 var theNumberString = String(number);<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 for (var o = 0; o < (places – String(number).length); o++) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0theNumberString = String(“0” + theNumberString)<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0};<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 return theNumberString<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 };<\/span>
\/\/\/\/\/\/ get from subfolders \/\/\/\/\/\/<\/span>
function retrievePSDFiles (theFolder, theFiles) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 if (!theFiles) {var theFiles = []};<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 var theContent = theFolder.getFiles();<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 for (var n = 0; n < theContent.length; n++) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0var theObject = theContent[n];<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0if (theObject.constructor.name == “Folder”) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 theFiles = retrievePSDFiles(theObject, theFiles)<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 };<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0if (theObject.name.slice(-4) == “.psd”) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 theFiles = theFiles.concat(theObject)<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 }<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0};<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 return theFiles<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 };<\/span>
\/\/\/\/\/\/ function to get the biggest number;<\/span>
function theLargestNumber (numbersArray) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 var x = new Array;<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 x = x.concat(numbersArray);<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 while (x.length > 1) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0if (x[0] >= x[x.length-1]) {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 var a = x.pop()<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 }<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0else {<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 var a = x.shift()<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 }<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0}<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 return x<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 };<\/span><\/p>\n

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